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The new White supremacist consensus, Part 2: shootings in Buffalo solidify the consensus
The latest mass shooter in Buffalo, New York was clearly a racist, and identified with Ukrainian and other neo-Nazis. But white supremacy has a stronger hold on European and U.S. society than is commonly acknowledged. The avowed racist is not the only problem.
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NATO begins military drills near Russian border
Troops from 14 countries, including the United States, Sweden, Finland, and Ukraine, are participating in massive exercises in Estonia.
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Evo Morales urges Bolivia to withdraw from OAS as more Presidents look to skip Latin American Summit
Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales suggested Sunday that his country should leave the Organization of American States, the international organization that Morales says “provoked” the 2019 coup d’etat against him.
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NDP onboard with Cons, Liberals in warmongering over Ukraine
Canada’s “left wing” party is openly opposed to negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine.
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Pentagon-funded Think Tank simulates war with China on NBC
NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ just aired an absolutely freakish segment in which the influential narrative management firm Center for a New American Security (CNAS) ran war games simulating a direct US hot war with China.
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Precarious employment and workers struggle in Russia today: the case of Kirill Ukraintsev, chairman of the Kurier trade union
The problem of precarious employment, non-standard labor relations concerns today an increasing number of employees.
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$40 Billion more for the Ukraine war: a wakeup call for those who still believe in lesser-evilism
The U.S. House of Representatives just approved another massive military “aid” package for the Ukraine War.
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‘The Afghanistan Papers’ leaves a critical question unanswered
While Afghanistan may finally be free of outside military occupation, Afghans are still suffering the deadly consequences of 40 years of U.S.-led subversion and war.
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“The once bright city became gloomy and sad:” survivor of 2014 Odessa Massacre reflects back on tragedy
Massacre part of planned act of intimidation by U.S.-installed government and precipitated civil war in Ukraine.
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Beyond abortion, a struggle to win our future
“When you have touched a woman you have struck a rock,” says a South African proverb. It continues, you have dislodged a boulder, you will be crushed. The U.S. Supreme Court justices who penned the recently leaked draft majority opinion abolishing voluntary legal pregnancy termination, should take heed.
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“White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa”
Barack Obama recounts in his memoir ‘Dreams from my Father’ reading a book about Africa as a young man. He remembered how he was filled with ‘an anger all the more maddening for its lack of a clear target’ at the way that the dominant images of the book shifted from the independence struggles of leaders like Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah to ‘famine, disease, the coups and counter-coups led by illiterate young men wielding AK-47s like shepherd sticks’ (p.515).
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NATO’s northward expansion risks turning Europe into a new powder keg
“Finland must apply for NATO membership without delay,” Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin jointly announced on Thursday. A similar announcement will come from Sweden on Sunday.
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The Donbass Diaries Part II: The Azov Battalions – ordinary Fascism
We gather around the school in Mariupol. All windows without exception are broken. The rooms inside are fully demolished. The Ukrainian have used the school and its surrounding as defense position. At 09:00 in the morning, humanitarian aid will be distributed. We start talking with Mariupol’s locals.
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Prevent pandemics and halt climate change? Strengthen land rights for Indigenous peoples
Land is and means different things to different people. Indigenous, pastoralist, and rural farming communities are especially dependent on land, which is widely recognised by conservation organisations. Such communities are often uniquely vulnerable to the effects of ecosystem destruction while simultaneously having strong social norms and cultural values that support ecosystem preservation.
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“Stay safe”: the whole world is in harms’ way
This is not a dispatch, editorial, or an article, but a brief note.
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Economist Michael Hudson on decline of dollar, sanctions war, imperialism, financial parasitism
Economist Michael Hudson discusses the decline of the U.S. dollar, the sanctions war on Russia, his concept of “free-trade imperialism,” and financial parasitism.
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Democratic Party offers nothing to the struggle to save abortion rights
Last week’s shocking leak exposing the Supreme Court’s draft plan to overturn Roe v. Wade has brought tens of thousands of people into the streets in struggle.
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Inflation: wages versus profits
Prices of commodities can be broken down into the three main components: labour costs (v= the value of labour power in Marxist terminology, non-labour inputs (c =the constant capital consumed, and the “mark-up” of profits over the first two components (s = surplus value appropriated by the capitalist owners). P = v + c + s.
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Our COVID blunder: Some learn from experience. Some don’t
Coronaviruses have been with us for as long as conspiracies, so it’s natural to link them. But the history of epidemics provide better explanations than any conspiracy theory and useful advice to those who learn from it.
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Whose speech is the Free Speech Bill protecting?
The government’s clampdown on free speech is part of a wider campaign to erode all civil liberties. Students must resist, writes Jack Ballingham